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Clara Sharp, left, and Sonja Watley, right, both doulas and co-directors of the company Ahavah Birthworks, visit expectant mother Claire Littleton, center, who is on Medicaid, at her home in north Minneapolis on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. (Photo by Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via Getty Images)

Medicaid cuts are maternal health crisis

Allison Carmen
An isolated person. (cokada / Getty Images)

Why you may feel like nothing matters

Elizabeth Hlavinka
AI Neural Network processing data on digital screen. (Yaroslav Kushta / Getty Images)

Microsoft's controversial quantum claims

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Volunteers offering food to help the homeless. (kuarmungadd / Getty Images)

Altruism is a great survival strategy

Nicole Karlis
NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test Commander Butch Wilmore (L) and Pilot Suni Williams walk out of the Operations and Checkout Building on June 05, 2024 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

How space impacts health of astronauts

Elizabeth Hlavinka
A Mexican soldier stands guard next to marijuana packages outside a tunnel discovered at a warehouse in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, near the border with the US on November 26, 2010. (FRANCISCO VEGA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with cartels will backfire

Niko Vorobyov
Stony Brook, N.Y.: A digital sign directs people to the drive-through coronavirus testing area which began on the main campus of Stony Brook University on March 18, 2020. Those wishing to be tested must first make an appointment. (Photo by John Paraskevas/Newsday RM vis Getty Images)

The lessons we didn't learn from COVID

Carlyn Zwarenstein
MALIBU, CA - January 08: A Tesla is melted into the street above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. High winds escalated the spread of several blazes across Southern California. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

LA fires still an environmental crisis

Daria Solovieva
A view of the famous 'Morant's Curve' offering a beautiful view of the frozen Bow River and the Canadian Pacific Railway at Banff National park near Lake Louise, Canada, late on December 06, 2013. (Photo by JOE KLAMAR/AFP via Getty Images)

Mining violates rights of nature

Joseph Winters, Taylar Dawn Stagner - Grist
Donald Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump worsening our mental health crisis

Anthony Estreet
Girl with measles on their body (Getty Images/StockPlanets)

You don't want to throw a measles party

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Megalodon from prehistoric times scene 3D illustration, though the ancient shark probably didn't look like this. (Warpaintcobra / Getty Images)

Megalodon even bigger than we thought

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Bolivia, La Paz: Women in typical costumes distribute coca leaves on coca chewing day. Photo: Radoslaw Czajkowski/dpa (Photo by Radoslaw Czajkowski/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Groups demand: "decolonize" coca leaves

Niko Vorobyov
A NHS vaccinator prepares to administer the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine to a member of public at a vaccination centre in London. (Dinendra Haria/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

New COVID study fuels vaccine attacks

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Poultry farmer Josh Frye churns out biochar from chicken waste and wood chips, turning it into a valuable fertilizing substance which is also environmentally clean on November 26, 2008 in Wardensville, West Virginia. (Photo by Jeff Hutchens/Getty Images)

Keeping carbon trapped for eons

Matt Simon - Grist
A group of mothers and children receive free milk from a Health Station on Madison Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Where did U.S. public health go wrong?

Eric Coles - Undark
Child holding a small plant (Getty Images/lovelyday12)

How plant biology mirrors our own

Carlyn Zwarenstein
View of Mount Vesuvius from the ground of the ancient Roman city of Pompeii (Getty Images/Andrea Pucci)

How volcano victim's brain turned glass

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Illustration of an asteroid approaching planet Earth (Getty Images/buradaki)

The hard science of asteroid collisions

Matthew Rozsa
Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The science Ted Cruz calls “woke"

Agnel Philip, Lisa Song - ProPublica
Planet Mars (Getty Images//Cobalt88)

We now know why Mars is so red

Matthew Rozsa
A pharmacist packs HIV self-test kits at a community center operated by LoveYourself, a nonprofit impacted by the Trump administration's freeze on foreign aid, on February 19, 2025 in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. (Ezra Acayan/Getty Images)

HIV/AIDS treatment needs federal support

Jesse Milan, Stephen Lee
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in front of the Federal Prison Medical Center in Lexington Kentucky. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No evidence drug farms treat addiction

Kasia Malinowska-Sempruch
Donald Trump shredding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Gutting climate data threatens public

Carlyn Zwarenstein
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